%0 Journal Article
%T About Hospitality And Tolerance In South-Eastern Europe
%A Petru Bejan
%J Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
%D 2010
%I Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies
%X We almost can¡¯t find among the countries of the East one not to praise or to display as own virtues ¨C particular or specific ¨C hospitality and tolerance. In fact, to project such qualities in a privileged register of categories is a part of a quasi-generalized imagologic strategy meant to valorize the positive character of some traits ¨C ethnic, national or belonging to a group. Each country needs a favorable mythology, luxuriant in fairytales, heroes, acts of bravery, one in which to be able to project its obsessions and nostalgias, composing a self image as good as possible. Is the fervor of idealization a sin? Certainly not, if the purposes are reasonable, and not subjected to some insidious ideological or propagandistic finalities.
%K culture of hospitality
%K tolerance
%K ethos of identities
%K difference
%K intolerance
%K xenophobia
%K alienation
%K cosmopolitanism
%K transnational mobility and solidarity
%U http://jsri.ro/ojs/index.php/jsri/article/view/25